The second day is the sixth day of the first month, which is the first day of the opening of the yamen after the New Year's Festival of the imperial court. After breakfast early in the morning, Shang Cheng wiped the bowl with his mouth, and took the two guards to the military department to find Zhenxiang. He promised Huo Shiqi to help him find a job in the Ministry of War, and he could also find a position in the Ministry of War with Uncle Seventeen's own merit resume, but after all, this is a personnel transfer and a public business, and he can't interfere with it even if he is a Shangzhu country, so he wants to find Zhenqian to find out the tone first. If he really can't, he'll have to find another way.

When he arrived at the military headquarters, the first quarter of the hour had already struck, but Zhenqian had not yet arrived. Not only was Zhenqian late, but the military department Shangshu and the right attendant had not yet arrived at Yadianmao. In the yamen of the military headquarters a few times before and after, except for some clerical and miscellaneous servants, it is rare to see a few officials dressed in green. Even these few little officials didn't see anyone in a hurry, but kept gossiping in and out of this house, and then they just listened to others talk about the rare things that had happened in the city in the past few days while holding hot tea and soup.

A master of the main courtyard was more familiar with him, and knew that he had something to do with Zhenxiang, so he let him go to the wing room first, and asked people to quickly send a pot of hot tea and soup, so he accompanied him while talking and waiting for Zhenxiang.

Shang Cheng was a little reluctant. He was here to do some personal business, and he couldn't delay others from doing business, so he said to the chief bookkeeper: "If you have something to do, go and be busy, and you don't need to accompany me." ”

The master smiled and poured water on him, and said, "I have nothing to do." On the first day of the New Year, what else can happen? ”

As soon as he said this, Shang Cheng remembered. He once heard people say that according to the imperial system, the annual holiday is five days, but in fact, from the sixth to the fifteenth day of the first month, each yamen cannot be regarded as officially opening the office. In the past few days, there is no need to point to the yamen in the morning, and there is no need to draw a charge when the yamen retreats, except for the officials who have to follow the duty on duty, everyone else generally goes to the yamen in the morning to fight a head, and then grope around to grind the hour until the morning, if there is nothing important after noon, you can almost go home slowly. This situation will continue until the Lantern Festival. Wait for the Lantern Festival on the fifteenth day of the first lunar month to pass, in order to be regarded as a real opening.

Since the main book didn't have anything important to do, Shang Cheng asked him about the military parade on the birthday of the Son of Heaven. He asked, "Sun Zhongshan, when will they be able to arrive in Beijing?" ”

"I saw Yanshan's submission just now, saying that it set off on the twenty-sixth day of the lunar month of the previous year, and if it is estimated, it will have to be after the Lantern Festival."

"Who are they?"

"The submission says that eight battalions were drawn from various armies. It is a rare honor to transfer so many soldiers and horses in one round. The master said with a smile. He clenched his fists and arched his hand towards the north, and said, "As you know, it is a very glorious thing to be able to be inspected before the Son of Heaven drives. The first emperor was fine, every three years to read five years to inspect, every time a few strong troops from other places were sent to Beijing to be read, at that time, the various guard towns and all the garrisons fought for this. Nowadays...... This is now," he bowed his hand again. "Today, in the fifth or sixth year of the Eastern Common Era, it was announced that the garrison from other places would spend money and food in Beijing, so this matter was stopped. Isn't this year a success, so the Prime Minister's Office asked the Son of Heaven to reopen the old routine. Not only Yanshan and Bohai had to send troops to Beijing, but also Dingjin and Longxi, as well as several roads in the Central Plains, had to be sent over to be read. One by one, oh, by the way, the Longxi submission was received, and their soldiers and horses were personally led by Yan Shangzhuguo, and they probably arrived in Beijing after the Lantern Festival. ”

Shang Cheng understood that this was the master bookkeeper reminding himself euphemistically that Yan Gu was also going back to Beijing. But this is not surprising. He remembered that Yan Gu seemed to have returned to Beijing before the Northern Expedition in 19 years, and it had been almost three years now, and it was time to return to Beijing to report on his work. Moreover, even if Yan Gu did not enter Beijing with the parade horse, he would probably be recruited back by the imperial court in the near future. Because on the day of the New Year's Day, he deduced in the Prime Minister's Office that the left wing of the Turks would be dormant for a period of time, and the right wing of the Tuniz was likely to enter an active period, so the Prime Minister's Office would inevitably recruit back the commanders of Bohai Dingjin and Longxi to give face-to-face instructions. As for the order of Yanshan, in order to avoid rumors and speculation, the imperial court will definitely not recruit them back; Maybe I will ask the military department to send a senior officer to Yanshan to give advice in person...... He pondered, and then asked, "Which generals are Yan Shan who came back to be read?" ”

Zhang Shao led the team, as well as Sun Zhongshan and Shao Chuan. The other is Tu Xian, who sticks to the county seat of Beizheng. ”

"Where's Guo Biao?"

The main book of this matter is not clear. He immediately went out to ask someone, and came back to tell Shang Cheng: "Bohai has a submission delivered, but the original text and copy have been sent to the Prime Minister's Mansion and have not yet been returned." Bohai said that Guo Biao's more than 1,000 men and horses entered Beijing with Bohai's paraded horses. However, Guo Fengyi fought too the grassland, and they walked very slowly on the road, and they may not arrive until the end of the month. ”

There are more than 1,000 cavalry left in Guo Biao's 3,000 cavalry? It was the first time Shang Cheng had heard the news. He was about to ask more carefully, but he really got to the ya. So he threw the question to Zhenxiang.

Zhen Qian said: "Guo Biao's summary of the war only arrived yesterday. They lost more than 1,000 men when they broke through the siege, and they lost a few hundred more in a thousand miles of battle, but there were no casualties when they broke through the poor mountains. The Tuqi people only put two hundred large tent soldiers in the Poor Mountain Ancestral Garden, and they were not guarded, and they were cut down by Guo Biao in a surprise attack at dawn. In the entire poor mountain ancestral court, there are only a few Tuqi people who escaped alive. He asked Shang Cheng again, "You have something to do with me?" ”

Shang Chengcheng told him about Huo Shiqi.

This is a trivial matter, and Zhen Qian immediately nodded in agreement. Besides, when Zhu Xu takes over Yanshan, sooner or later he will have to make some adjustments in personnel; Huo Shiqi's friendship with Shang Cheng is deep and extraordinary, and it will inevitably appear on the first batch of personnel adjustment lists in Zhuxu. Therefore, without frowning, he agreed to transfer Huo Shiqi to the military department. However, he told Shang Cheng that there are no suitable vacancies in the Ministry of War recently, and only when Xiao Jian leaves Beijing to go to Jiazhou to take up his post, he will definitely take a large group of people to work in the camp at that time, and he can help Huo Shiqi arrange a better position; So Huo Shiqi has to wait patiently for a while. But he also said that it would take a month for the exchange of official documents between the Ministry of War and Yanshan, and when Yanshan's palindrome arrived, Xiao Jian would almost leave Beijing, so Huo Shiqi did not need to worry at all.

Shang Cheng smiled and arched his hand and said, "Then thank you so much." ”

Now that Uncle Seventeen's matter has been resolved, he doesn't want to delay in the military department any longer, so he stands up and prepares to leave.

"I'm not busy, I'm just going to ask you about something." Zhen Qian grabbed him and said.

"What's the matter?"

"It's what you told me about glass and the celestial sphere last time."

"Didn't you agree last time?" Shang Cheng said strangely. He teased Zhenqian, "Why, the military department squeezed out that bit of broken copper and iron from the treasury again?" ”

Zhen Qian smiled and said, "I didn't say that the Ministry of War plans to take over this pile of broken glass and broken glass. If the Ministry of Industry wants to earn political achievements, let them earn it. He added, "It's not that I want to ask you, it's someone who asked me to ask the Ministry of Industry what is going on with this colorless and transparent glass." One by one, this just happened to bump into you. I know that Chang Xiushi and they were also encouraged by you to get this thing, so it's better to ask them than to ask you! You talk to me again, and I'll go back and give someone a message. ”

Shang Cheng didn't hurry to tell him what glass was, but only asked him, "Who asked you about this?" "People who can pull the relationship to Zhenxiang here, they will definitely be able to pull the relationship to Chang Wenshi, since they have this kind of ability to reach the sky with their hands and eyes, why bother to ask the squire of the Ministry of War about the Ministry of Industry?

“…… It's a relative of mine who is beating around the bush. Zhen Xiang said. After a pause, he added, "It's my distant uncle and brother." He has a little spare money at home. Nowadays, the land price in the surrounding states and counties of Gyeonggi is high, and it is too slow to buy land tenants to return to others. If you can make money, see if you can take the relationship to go to the clear soup and oil yamen of the Taishi Bureau, and hold the name of the Taishi Bureau to occupy some shares in it. ”

In this way, Shang Cheng understands. It seems that this is Tian Xiu's idea that day, under the guise of the Ministry of Industry, in the name of the Taishi Bureau, he found someone to invest in trying to burn glass, and when the results came, the Taishi Bureau and the investors benefited from it. He smiled and said, "This thing won't be clear to you for a while......

"Then don't say it. Let me ask you, can you make money by burning this glass? ”

"Probably, I mean, probably, the benefits of the glass should still be relatively thick." Shang Cheng said. But he's talking about profit margins, not making a lot of money. The things produced in small workshops, one is immature, and the output of the other is limited, so it is impossible to make a lot of money. However, in the early days, if it was sold at the price of luxury goods such as glass, the profit was still considerable. If there are more people who have a good eye for poisonous means and can figure out the mirror or something, it is estimated that they will be rich in less than two or three years.

"Oh." Zhen Xiang nodded thoughtfully. After pausing for a moment, he asked again, "How much profit can you say?" Can there be three percent of the profits? ”

Shang Cheng didn't understand what he meant by inquiring about things so clearly, so he said casually: "Who will burn glass for 30% of the profits?" Three times is about the same! If you meet someone who is capable, it is not uncommon for a piece of broken glass to earn dozens of times the profit. As soon as he finished speaking, he saw Zhenqian's hand shaking violently, and half of the tea soup was poured on his body without knowing it, and he looked at himself stupidly with his mouth open, and couldn't help but joke and said, "Lao Zhen, you inquired so carefully, it can't be that you have your own plan to burn glass out of your pocket, right?" ”

"Where, where. Zida joked, joked......" Zhenqian said with an embarrassed expression, "This is just my uncle and brother's curiosity......"

Shang Cheng smiled, and did not expose him, so he stood up and bowed his hand to leave.

When he went out, he also said to Zhen Qian, who had a face of gain and loss: "Look, I asked the military department to burn the glass by itself, but you don't agree." Now it's okay, if you want to participate in individual stocks, you have to look at the faces of the Ministry of Industry and the Taishi Bureau. ”

He didn't know what the face of the Ministry of Industry and the Taishi Bureau would be, but Zhenqian's face was really ugly. Good! finally let him avenge the "revenge" on the day of the New Year's Day! Send you money and push people out the door, now go and squat in the corner to wipe your nose. When you go back to the Ministry of Works, you really burn the glass, and there is when you cry......